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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 139, NWS Birmingham, AL
NWS Birmingham, AL issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2007, 5:10 PM CDT for Hale County, Alabama. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 27, 2007, 5:10 PM CDT (22:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2007, 5:45 PM CDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Birmingham, AL
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Hale County, AL
The radar
The Birmingham radar (KBMX), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:13 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Birmingham, AL (KBMX), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 92 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1182 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 6 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Birmingham, AL wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 27, 2:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 27, 2:47 PM CDT, 2 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 247 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2007 .DISCUSSION... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED COVERAGE AGAIN THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE MAIN BULK OF IT ALONG AN INSTABILITY AXIS FROM CENTRE TO SELMA. THE GOES SOUNDER DID AN EXCELLENT JOB OF DEPICTING THIS CONVECTIVE AREA EARLIER IN THE MORNING. THIS ACTIVITY SHOULD DIMINISH QUICKLY THIS EVENING. PROBABLY MORE OF THE SAME THURSDAY WITH ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS. BY FRIDAY, A MID LEVEL TROUGH DEVELOPS OVER THE EASTERN CONUS AND WILL PUSH A SURFACE BOUNDARY INTO ALABAMA FRIDAY NIGHT TO EARLY SATURDAY MORNING. STILL SOME TIMING DIFFERENCES ON THIS. THE TREND HAS ACTUALLY BEEN TO SPEED THINGS THROUGH WITH LITTLE RAINFALL AFTER SATURDAY...PERHAPS SOME LINGERING THUNDERSTORMS FAR SOUTH ON SUNDAY. ONCE IT CLEARS THE AREA, DRIER CONDITIONS RETURN FOR A WHILE. STAYED CLOSE TO GUIDANCE FOR TEMPERATURES. MEXMOS TOOK A NICE JUMP UP FROM THE 00Z RUN FOR MONDAY AND TUESDAY HIGHS BRINGING US INTO THE MID 90S FOR PARTS OF THE WEST AND SOUTH. OTHERWISE, NEAR CLIMATOLOGY. && .AVIATION...18Z TAF DISCUSSION. SCT CU AND CONVECTION DEVELOPING ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA AT THIS ISSUANCE. WENT FOR A SHORT PREVAILING GROUP FOR ANB AS TSRA LIKELY TO RUN OVER THEM SHORTLY. FOR ALL OTHERS...INCLUDED VCTS THROUGH EARLY EVENING. SHOULD CLEAR OUT OVERNIGHT WITH WINDS REMAINING LIGHT AND VARIABLE. 5 TO 6K FT SCT CU FIELD EXPECTED TO DEVELOP WITH ISO TSRA EARLY THURSDAY AFTERNOON. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... GADSDEN 68 91 69 90 70 / 20 20 20 40 30 ANNISTON 70 92 70 92 70 / 20 20 20 30 30 BIRMINGHAM 72 92 73 91 72 / 20 30 20 40 30 TUSCALOOSA 71 94 71 93 72 / 20 20 20 40 30 CALERA 71 92 72 92 72 / 20 30 20 30 30 AUBURN 70 90 72 90 73 / 10 10 10 20 20 MONTGOMERY 71 93 72 93 72 / 20 20 20 20 20 TROY 70 92 70 93 72 / 10 20 10 20 20 && .BMX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AL...NONE. && 88/88/90
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 27, 12:59 PM CDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BIRMINGHAM AL 1259 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2007 ALZ011>015-017>050-281759- AUTAUGA-BARBOUR-BIBB-BLOUNT-BULLOCK-CALHOUN-CHAMBERS-CHEROKEE- CHILTON-CLAY-CLEBURNE-COOSA-DALLAS-ELMORE-ETOWAH-FAYETTE-GREENE-HALE- JEFFERSON-LAMAR-LEE-LOWNDES-MACON-MARENGO-MARION-MONTGOMERY-PERRY- PICKENS-PIKE-RANDOLPH-RUSSELL-SHELBY-ST CLAIR-SUMTER-TALLADEGA- TALLAPOOSA-TUSCALOOSA-WALKER-WINSTON- 1259 PM CDT WED JUN 27 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE COUNTIES SERVED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BIRMINGHAM. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. WET MICROBURST POTENTIAL: BIRMINGHAM...MODERATE. MONTGOMERY...MODERATE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... ACTIVATION OF STORM SPOTTERS AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PERSONNEL IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME.
In the hours before
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Everything else NWS Birmingham, AL issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Chilton | 25 min |
| Jun 27, 3:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BMX | Jefferson | 34 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.